That's due to a combination of factors: fewer books over all,
fewer of the kind of books I'm looking for, and full shelves at home.
There are people out there who simply can not get
enough of the kind of books they love, because the traditional world just don't publish them.
If the past year or two have not seen many new biology textbooks then there has been no
shortage of the kind of books that I hope students will read for interest's sake; the kind of book that I would like to put on a summer vacation reading list.
Hi Hugh, With all of the comments about how writers of children's books and cookbooks are being hurt by this, is there any way to search the data on Authorearnings and see what
percentage of those kinds of books are even in KU?
These are provided to ensure that you have a clear
idea of the kinds of books we feature, and do not put your time and effort into suggesting a book which is not a good match.
I knew very little about remainders or book publishing, but as I worked with these books, I got a
sense of the kind of books that people were reading.
For those who do not know about the JCRL, it is on the ground floor of Larsen (G10) and full of hundreds, maybe thousands,
of all kinds of books.
It's one
of those kind of books.
(Ironically, given the puppy ideas about what's popular and not nominated, one
of the kinds of books that gets left off consistently is speculative romance.